you've set us up for this next interview. joining me now, contributor to "newsweek" and the daily beast, pa tri ma murphy and mother jones staff reporter andy croel. thanks for joining me. patricia, five days until the cuts take effect. does either side have any real incentive to compromise? it seems like there's little common ground here, the president who wants revenues, republicans want only the spending cuts, and never the twain shall meet. >> there does not seem to be any ensi incentive for either side to compromise, and i don't understand that because both sides stand to lose significantly when it comes to going back to voters and explaining how this happened because both sides have their frinlts on this deal. the president did come up with the idea. 70% of republicans voted for it. so nobody is without blame in this situation. i think once you start to see how these sequester start to affect people not in d.c. but around the country, 780% 80% of change, the furloughs will happen outside washington. once people see thei